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Do mobile phones cause explosions at petrol stations That question has just been exhaustively answered by Adam Burgess, a researcher at the University of Kent, in England. Oddly, however, Dr Burgess is not a physicist, but a sociologist. For the concern rests not on scientific evidence of any danger, but is instead the result of sociological factors: it is an urban myth, supported and propagated by official sources, but no less a myth for that. Dr Burgess presented his findings this week at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association.
Mobile phones started to become widespread in the late 1980s, when the oil industry was in the middle of a concerted safety drive, Dr Burgess notes. This was, in large part. a response to the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, when 167 people died in an explosion on an oil platform off the Scottish coast. (41)__________So nobody questioned the precautionary ban on the use of mobile phones at petrol stations. The worry was that a
Cheques have largely replaced money as a mean s of exchange, for they are widely accepted everywhere. Though this is very (1) for both buyer and seller, it should not be forgotten that cheuqes are not real money: they are quite (2) in themselves. A shop-keeper always runs a certain (3) when he accepts a cheque and he is quite (4) his rights if, (5) , he refuses to do so.
People do not always know this and are shocked if their good faith is called (6) . An old and very wealth friend of mine told me he had an extremely unpleasant (7) . He went to a famous jewellery shop which keeps a large (8) of precious stones and asked to be shown some pearl necklaces. After examining several trays, he (9) to buy a particularly fine string of pearls and asked if he could pay (10) cheque. The assistant said that this was quite (11) , but the moment my friend signed his name, he was invited into
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W: Good morning, can I help you
M: Yes, I’d like to know something about the weather in New York this week.
W: Well, it’s fairly hot and there’s much rain in the evenings.
M: I see, thanks very much for your help.
